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Commercial and Business Incorporation: Enhancing the notion of corporation to include an ethical statement
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-22)Today’s modern, Canadian, business corporations are hugely influential in determining public policy and many aspects of people’s lives. Because this influence permeates so much of our social construct, we expect corporations ... -
Commissioning of a Modular Steiner Tunnel
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-24)This thesis presents methods used for, and results from, tests conducted during the final installation and commissioning of a modular Steiner tunnel delivered to the UWFRL. The overall aim of the present research is to ... -
Commit-Level vs. File-Level Vulnerability Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)Helping software development teams find and repair vulnerabilities before they are released and exploited can prevent costs due to loss of data, availability, and reputation. However, while general defect prediction models ... -
The Commodification of Rural Heritage: Creative Destruction in Newfoundland and Labrador
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)The intent of this study is to determine if the process of creative destruction is underway in a rural community located in Newfoundland and Labrador and to identify why this development sequence has or has not occurred. ... -
Commodity Prices, Stock Prices and Economic Activity in a Small Open Economy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-10)This thesis is comprised of three papers which jointly examine the role of commodity prices as well as other asset prices in influencing the evolution of economic activity in a small-open economy (SOE). Using Canada as the ... -
Common Sense Within the Bounds of Philosophy: Reid’s Philosophy of Common Sense Defended
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)I proffer a defense Reid’s Philosophy of Common Sense. I address the initial implausibility that greets most all of us when we stop to consider the prospects for common sense as guide to knowledge and inquiry. I argue that ... -
Common Therapeutic Factors in Psychotherapy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Dozens of common therapeutic factors have been identified in psychotherapy research, but less attention has been devoted to integrating those factors into coherent theoretical frameworks. Frank and Frank (1991) proposed a ... -
A Commons For Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)Oakland’s housing crisis is starkly visible. In recent years, the tech boom in Silicon Valley has drastically increased costs of living in the Bay Area. Many workers from San Francisco and the peninsula have relocated ... -
Communal Inferentialism: Charles S. Peirce’s Critique of Epistemic Individualism
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-09)Charles S. Peirce’s critique of epistemic individualism, the attempt to make the individual the locus of knowledge, is a dominant theme in his writings. While scholars often mention this critique, there is, surprisingly, ... -
Communal Orientation and Employee Well-Being: Examining the Mediating Roles of Positive Relational Communication and Perceptions of Customer Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-15)Customer interactions can be a significant source of work-related stress for hospitality employees, which can lead to burnout and high employee turnover rates. However, adopting a communal approach to customer relationships ... -
Communautés isolées : survie individuelle et collective en temps d’Apocalypse dans les romans de Christian Guay-Poliquin
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Cette thèse de maîtrise propose une étude de la représentation des communautés géographiquement éloignées en temps d’Apocalypse et de la survie des individus qui en font partie à partir de la trilogie romanesque de Christian ... -
Communicating Change: Public Engagement, Intensification, and Urban Redevelopment
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)The role of public engagement is a common subject in the planning literature. This research sought to better understand how different actors view and understand public engagement in their communities, and how is public ... -
Communicating health information in primary care: a multidisciplinary exploration of patient, pharmacist, and physician decision-making
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-27)Research has yet to clearly define how health care professionals’ (HCPs) use and sharing of information influences how health decisions are made, both independently and collaboratively. Similarly, the manner in which ... -
Communicating leisure: Meanings of leisure in newcomer settlement service provision
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Research suggests that leisure can play an important role in the settlement of newcomers; however, little research has explored meanings of leisure in the context of settlement service providers. Furthermore, little research ... -
Communicating the Pixel: A Strategy for Guiding the Use of Remotely-Sensed Habitat Data in Coral Reef Management
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-04)Over the last decade, coral reef remote sensing research has focused on habitat map development. Advances in field methods, spatial and spectral resolution of remote sensing data, and algorithm development have led to more ... -
Communication Complexity of Remote State Preparation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)Superdense coding and quantum teleportation are two phenomena which were not possible without prior entanglement. In superdense coding, one sends n bits of information using n/2 qubits in the presence of shared entanglement. ... -
Communication over Asynchronous Networks: Signaling and Rate-Reliability Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-16)Asynchronism inherently exists in many communication systems specially in multi-terminal networks mainly due to the effect of multi-path and propagation delay. While in theoretical analysis of communication systems perfect ... -
Communication over Channels with Causal Side Information at the Transmitter
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-21)This work deals with communication over the AWGN channel with additive discrete interference, where the sequence of interference symbols is known causally at the transmitter. We use Shannon's treatment for channels with ... -
Communication over MIMO Multi-User Systems: Signalling and Fairness
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-22)Employment of the multiple-antenna transmitters/receivers in communication systems is known as a promising solution to provide high-data-rate wireless links. In the multi-user environments, the problems of signaling and ... -
Communicative practices of resistance in psychotherapy interactions: Patients resistance to solution-oriented questions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)In this thesis, I investigate the practices of linguistic resistance in psychotherapeutic interactions to uncover which communicative practices of resistance patient use in these interactions. I study this interactional ...